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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

How is this show allowed on the air?

How is this show allowed
on the air?

What would
you say about a game show that regularly offends other cultures and women?A show that encourages smoking? A show that
openly mocks and questions the intelligence of participants? Is there such a
show on the air? Yes there is, and I find it disgraceful.

The
moderator on this game show regularly asks questions with a degrading Chinese,
Japanese, or German stereotypical accent.The questions often refer to actions of intellectually disabled people.Many questions have clear sexual
innuendoes.Disgraceful.

Celebrities
on the show smoke cigarettes and even on occasion a pipe, without regard for
the damage their second-hand smoke forces on other celebrities, contestants or
the audience.Disgraceful!

Attractive
female contestants have to endure leering and sexually charged comments.They are expected from time to time to kiss
the celebrities…ON THE LIPS!
Disgraceful!

When a
contestant gives a bad answer, the moderator feels no compunction about making
derogatory comments.He often belabors
the derogatory comments and even invites the audience to taunt and boo.

This show
often makes fun of the way others dress, if they have an accent they are made
fun of, and their occupations are often disparaged. Disgraceful!

The show is
on every morning on a cable game show network.The disgraceful broadcasts are shows from the 1970’s, TV’s “Match Game.”

Pipe smoking on TV...disgraceful!

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It was a
popular daytime game show.I don’t know
how the people from the 1970’s survived this disgraceful show.Yet I now watch it daily.

The most
entertaining thing is picking out all the things TV can no longer say or do
today that were apparently not that offensive in 1970.

Celebrity kissing a contestant...disgraceful!

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Some things
from the 70’s are offensive today because we have been told they are
offensive.Some things are offensive
today because we are just more enlightened.

Interesting
how times change, in the 70’s you could make fun of different cultures,
sexually harass women, and smoke on daytime TV, but you could not say “penis or
vagina.”

19 comments:

I watch this all the time and it just makes me laugh. It seemed so tongue in cheek, harmless.. And you're right. Then we were told it was offensive and some of us became more enlightened. Either way, truth be told, it's still funny. :) I loved Richard Dawson too!

I may have watched this show, but I don't remember how they played their 'game' or how much money was involved. I know television has changed a lot. The late night shows *back then* was easier on the eyes and ears than it is now. Movies - wow, what a change. I guess that it's why I prefer vintage films.I know that funny then was actually funny.

There were some terribly un PC shows in the 70's. I have vague memories of watching Benny Hill as a child which seemed to mainly involve a short, rotund man in a flat cap being chased (or chasing) long legged beauties dressed in scanty clothes around fields (if I remember correctly). It was sold as Saturday night family entertainment.

I never thought the show was offensive and I still do not. That was the culture back then, nobody had the political correctness finger waved at them because it was all in good fun and entertainment. Just like today, comedians can do stand up and poke fun of many people, and if you get offended you're just someone with no sense of humor.

On the other hand, if you're of one race and you make a racist joke, a sexist joke, or a homophobic comment, you might just get booed off the stage. That's how evolution of political correctness started and it's not over yet. By far.

You should see some of the shows we had over here in the UK in the 70s and 80s. I've been to the States a lot of times and compared to these programmes, yours are (generally) tame. Even now we have a game show called Naked Attraction where contestants pick a partner based on what they look like naked. I am not making this up!

What a fabulous post! I watched this show religiously as a youngster. I believe it came on at 3 pm in the summer and I planned my activities around it! I do remember thinking that Richard Dawson kissing all those women was a bit gross. So funny thinking about what was considered normal behavior back then. I bet my kids would be shocked!

When I came to Phoenix to work on television there was an anchorman at a competing station (known for his vulgar attitude toward young women) who refused to allow the word "rape" to be used on his airwaves. And it goes on.

I have a theory about why so many things nowadays just won't fly any more...be it sleazy game show hosts kissing people on the mouth, be it "political correctness" (why is that always said as if it's a bad thing?), be it making fun of people who are different. Those people who experienced and lived it in the 60's and 70's grew up and had kids and wanted to protect their kids from what they had experienced. Think about it - the hippies who attended Woodstock and practiced free love and used all sorts of drugs are now the bankers/lawyers/business people who tell their kids to practice abstinence, stay away from drugs, be sensitive to others, etc.

Sometimes it almost seems as if their attitude is "I had my fun, but you can't have it!"

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